Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on our first Have you seen...? thread about the upcoming Add-on update notifications for XF 2.4. It's exciting for us to start this process so soon after the release of XenForo 2.3! And while we are not sticking to a specific schedule for this series of HYS threads, our next one is already here!
This time around we are adding Direct message labels as a way for people to be able to add a little more organisation to their inboxes. This is a long standing suggestion (or two) which, when coupled with direct message search which we added in XF 2.3, makes direct messages much more user friendly and intuitive for members and staff alike.
One of the best parts of this is that the functionality will be very familiar to you if you've ever tagged a thread or added a label to your bookmarks.
Here's what the Inbox looks like in XenForo 2.4:
To add or modify existing labels, you just click the tag/label icon to load the edit labels overlay:
You are able to add up to 10 labels to each direct message, with no limit to the number of different labels you can create.
You can filter the direct message list by a single label, either by clicking one of the existing labels in your list of direct messages, or via the filter bar:
You can also search for messages by multiple labels using direct message advanced search:
To help you better manage your direct messages, you can use the inline tools to add or remove labels from multiple messages at a time:
Prior to the release of XenForo 2.4, we will be exploring ways of exposing a list of all of your direct message labels to make filtering your messages even easier. If you have any feedback or suggestions as to what would work best for you in managing your direct messages labels, please do let us know.
And that's it for this time but all being well, the next entry into this Have you seen...? series for XenForo 2.4 won't be too far away and the subject of that one will likely be your first look at the brand new editor!
XENFORO.
This time around we are adding Direct message labels as a way for people to be able to add a little more organisation to their inboxes. This is a long standing suggestion (or two) which, when coupled with direct message search which we added in XF 2.3, makes direct messages much more user friendly and intuitive for members and staff alike.
One of the best parts of this is that the functionality will be very familiar to you if you've ever tagged a thread or added a label to your bookmarks.
Here's what the Inbox looks like in XenForo 2.4:
To add or modify existing labels, you just click the tag/label icon to load the edit labels overlay:
You are able to add up to 10 labels to each direct message, with no limit to the number of different labels you can create.
You can filter the direct message list by a single label, either by clicking one of the existing labels in your list of direct messages, or via the filter bar:
You can also search for messages by multiple labels using direct message advanced search:
To help you better manage your direct messages, you can use the inline tools to add or remove labels from multiple messages at a time:
Prior to the release of XenForo 2.4, we will be exploring ways of exposing a list of all of your direct message labels to make filtering your messages even easier. If you have any feedback or suggestions as to what would work best for you in managing your direct messages labels, please do let us know.
And that's it for this time but all being well, the next entry into this Have you seen...? series for XenForo 2.4 won't be too far away and the subject of that one will likely be your first look at the brand new editor!
XENFORO.
